Item Summary

A medical treatise on the making of theriacs.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب جامع الافتراق والاتفاق لصنعة الترياق / تأليف علي بن عبد العظيم الانصاري المتطبب.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Jāmiʻ al-iftirāq wa-al-ittifāq Ii-ṣanʻat al-tiryāq / taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm al-Anṣārī al-Mutaṭabbib.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 565H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1c18ds39m
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1547
Extent
159 leaves : paper ; 265 x 178 (210 x 126) mm. bound to 262 x 182 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muṣṭafá Baḥjat, raʼīs al-aṭibbāʼ al-[...]; seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1104.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 506.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed 667 [1268]. Diagram on fol. 24a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 159 + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 35 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; edges have been trimmed ; MS in very good condition. MS is rare.
Origin: According to colophon copied 23 or 24 Rajab 954 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Īwānī (fol. 159a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عونك اللهم الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان وجعل بدنه اشرفه الابدان ... اما بعد فان اهل عصرنا وزمننا قد قلت منهم الهمم عن الفحص في اسرار العلوم والحكم خصوصا علم الطب ...
Colophon: وابتداء الکتابة في هذه النسخة في ثالث او رابع عشرين شهر رجب سنة اربع وخمسين وتسعمائة وانتهائها [انتهاؤها] في الليلة المذکورة ولله الحمد على الاعانة في ذلك وامثاله. تم والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and decorative edging. Gold-specked light blue paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
332

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0aa13a17-656f-491a-ae2b-3f19038efab5/manifest